Hose-protector



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D. P. DIETERIOH HOSE PROTECTOR.

No. 349,929. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

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DANIEL P. DIETERIOH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOSE-PROTECTO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,929, dated September 28, 1836.

Application filed February 20, 1886. Serial No. 192,648. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, DANIEL P. DIETERICH, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hose Protectors, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a hose-protector embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a top or plan view thereof, and Fig. 3 represents a section of a detached portion on an enlarged scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists of forming a hoseprotector of sheets of flexible material, the under side of the lower sheet being corrugated, so as to prevent slipping of the protector on the rails, and the inner surface of both sheets being provided with ribs for limiting the depression of the upper sheet, whereby crushing or cutting of the hose is prevented and a serviceable device presented, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A and B represent sheets of india-rubber or other flexible material, which are connected at one end, leaving the other end free to be raised, so that fire-hose may be laid between the two sheets, the lower sheet being adapted to be rested on car-tracks which the hose crosses. The sheet B is corrugated, whereby it takes firm hold of the rails, and is prevented from slipping thereon, and possesses great strength in vertical direction. Rising from the lower strip, B, are ribs 0, and depending from the upper strip, A, are ribs D, it being seen that the ribs 0 D are in line with each other, whereby when the upper strip is depressed by the weight of the car the ribs D come in contact with the ribs 0, so that when the car is running over' the protector, and the upper strip is thereby depressed, the ribs D abut against the ribs 0, and consequently limit the extent of depression of the upper sheet, and thus the hose is not crushed or cut by the superimposed weight of the car on the protector, it being noticed that the ribs 0 D are located at intervals, leaving spaces between them for the reception of the hose.

In order to increase the frictional action of thelower strip, B, on the rail, the under side of the same is faced with canvas or other fabric, as E, (shown in Fig. 3,) said facing also serving to strengthen the strip B.

In order to interlock the ribs C D and prevent them from disengagement, either set of said ribs is formed with sockets F, into which projects the other set.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A hoseprotector formed of upper and lower sheets of flexible material connected at one end, the lower sheet being corrugated, substantially as described.

2. A hose-protector formed of upper and lower sheets of flexible material connected at one end, each sheet having on its inner face ribs or projections, which areadapted to abut when the upper sheet is depressed, substantially as described.

3. A hose-protector formed of upper and lower sheets of flexible material connected at one end, the lower sheet being corrugated and provided on its inner face with upwardlyprojecting ribs, and the inner face of the upper sheet being provided with downwardlyprojecting ribs, which are adapted to abut against the ribs of the lower sheet, substantially as described.

4. In a hose bridge or protector, the corrugated lower plate faced with fabric, substantially as described.

5. 111 a hose bridge or protector, the interlocking ribs 0 D, substantially as described.

DANIEL P. DIETERIOH.

WVitnesses:

R. M. POPHAM, JOHN A. WInDnRsHErM. 

